Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 6:7:
- Uma: “For if for example a person dies, he is released from the power of sin.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For if a person is already dead, he can no longer be ruled over by sin.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For anyone who’s already dead, he is no longer regarded as a transgressor.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because if a person dies, he is set-free from the power of sin.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because the person who makes the judgment that his body has died has now separated from sin.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 9:50:
- Noongar: “‘Don’t tell him to stop!’ Jesus said to John and the other disciples, ‘If he is not fighting you, he stands with you.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus said saying to Yohanes: ‘Do not forbid him, because the people who do not oppose us, its meaning, they are the ones who are on our side.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But Isa said to him, ‘Don’t tell him not to. For those who don’t oppose you take your side.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to him, ‘Don’t you tell anyone who is doing like that to stop, because the person who is not our enemy, he helps us.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Don’t forbid him,’ Jesus said, ‘because the one who doesn’t oppose you is helping you.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But Jesus spoke, saying, ‘Don’t tell him to stop. For it’s true, if he isn’t opposing you, he is siding with you.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 8:2:
- Uma: “I saw seven angels who were standing in front of God. Those seven angels were given seven trumpets. [Indonesian: sangkakala]” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then I saw the seven angels standing before God. Each one was given (something) like a tabuli’.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then I saw the seven angels of God which stand before God, and each one of them was given a trumpet.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I then saw the seven angels who were standing before God. They were given seven horns.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “After that, I saw that those seven angels standing there in the presence of God were given horns.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “That time having passed I saw seven angels standing before the chair of God. These angels were each given a trumpet.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 7:16:
- Uma: “But if I do behavior that I don’t like, it means I admit/confess that the Lord’s Law is good.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If I hate my deeds which are bad/evil, it means I believe that the law is good.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if I break the Law, but I don’t want to break it, this not wanting to break it is a sign that in my thinking the Law is good.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “So-then, my-not-wanting to do the evil that I am doing, that is what shows that I agree that the law is good.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “But when it is seen that I don’t look well upon what I did, then I know that what is said in the law is very good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 10:20:
- Noongar: “But you must not be happy because evil spirits obey you. You must only be happy because your names are written in Heaven.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “But even so, do not be-glad-about the submission of demons to you. It is better that you be-glad-about your names being written in heaven.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Don’t let that be your happiness that the demons obey your command, but your happiness should be that your names are written by God in heaven.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But don’t you just rejoice over the fact that the demons obey you, but rather you rejoice because your names have been listed by God in Heaven.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But this power of yours to command the evil-spirits, that should not be the most-important-thing that makes-you -happy but rather because your names are written in heaven.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But don’t be happy that evil spirits surrender/admit-defeat to you, but on the contrary what you are to be happy about is that your names are written there in heaven.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 9:21:
- Uma: “But the rest of the people who were not killed with those plagues earlier, they still did not repent from their evil deeds. They did not repent from their killing, sorcery, doing wrong [has a sexual connotation], or their stealing. They also did not give up worshipping demons and things made by their own hands, like idols that are made from gold or silver of brass or from wood. Those idols, they do not see, they do not hear, they also do not walk.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “They did not stop doing their bad deeds. They still killed and they did not stop practicing sorcery towards their companions. They still practised illicit sex and stole.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “They also did not give up their murdering, their witchcraft, their vulgar deeds, and their stealing.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Neither did they repent of the other evil they had been doing such as their killing people, their calling-the-spirits-to-harm-people and acting-as-spirit-mediums, their sleeping with someone not their spouse, and their stealing.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Those people really didn’t repent of what they were doing which was killing, occult-magic, immoral-behavior with one not their spouse and stealing.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “They did not want to leave how they were walking. They continued to kill. They continued to practice magic. They continued to fornicate. They continued to steal.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 8:23:
- Uma: “And it isn’t just the world that groans. We who are God’s children also groan in our hearts. We have received the Holy Spirit as a sign of God’s promise to us. But we still wait for the time God will lift us to become his children and free our bodies from all that is evil.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “It is not only some of God’s creation that suffers but including us (incl.) the ones to whom God gave his Spirit who is his beginning/first gift, we (incl.) also suffer while we (incl.) keep-on-waiting-for the day when God will make our (incl.) bodies new so that/and we (incl.) will no longer be sick and die. When that day arrives it will then be really clear that he has really made us (incl.) his children.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And that’s not all, because as for us (incl.) also who have received the Holy Spirit which is the sign that there is still something which will be given to us by God in the future, drawn very tight is our expectancy of this, because we (incl.) really desire that that time might come when God will finish His making us His sons and He will carry out His making our bodies immortal.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But it is not only they who are having-a-hard-time but rather even we to whom the Holy Spirit has been given who is the first-thing that God has given us who believe. It is as we are also groaning in our minds in our waiting for the time when God will clearly reveal our status as his children and will transform these bodies of ours into new bodies that never-die.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Now, not only what is in the world suffers, but also we want to have what we suffer pass by, that there will come the day when our bodies will become new. Then it will appear that we are God’s children. Even though we now walk with the Holy Spirit, yet we want to see the good which will be afterwards.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
- Mezquital Otomi: “And we suffer thirst and hunger, sickness and misfortune, and we sigh, but because God has given us the Holy Spirit as a sign of the joy that will come, therefore we wait for God to show we are his sons, with our bodies made new and glorious without weariness or pain.” (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 11:10:
- Noongar: “For all people who ask, that thing will be given; and he who seeks, he will find. Knock and the door will be opened for all people who knock.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Because whoever asks/requests will definitely be given. Whoever searches will definitely find. Whoever asks-to-be-opened the door, the door will definitely be opened for him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For all who ask will be given, the ones seeking will find and the ones asking to be let in, it will be opened for them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because all who beg from God receive, and those who look, find; and those who call-at-the-door, God opens the door for them.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “For even anyone who requests from God will be given, and even anyone who searches will find what he is searching for. Even anyone also who knocks, the door will be opened for him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Because as many as request are given to. Those who search can find. And as many as plead to be allowed to enter really will be responded to favorably.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
